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Hemingway rewrite settles family feud

A LONG-RUNNING feud in the family of Ernest Hemingway is to be laid to rest by a revised version of A Moveable Feast, his memoir of bohemian life in 1920s Paris.

This was the final nostalgic volume that "Papa" Hemingway was working on when he shot himself in the summer of 1961, depressed and frustrated at growing older.

He had written a note saying the memoir was unpublishable but three years later his widow Mary published it anyway - and opened up family wounds dating back half a century. The new edition seeks to soothe the troubled waters.

The initiative comes from Patrick Hemingway, 81, the writer's only living child, who has retired to rural Montana after a lifetime of African adventures.

Last week he said the original edition of A Moveable Feast maligned his mother and he wanted the record set straight. "It was dishonest and I think the revised